I took the countdown intro off. I took the curtains off. I disabled a few menu shortcuts from the home screen. But nothing happens. I've tried switching to other skins and back. Rebooting the device (Intel Celeron NUC, 4GB RAM with latest Openelec) but no changes occur.

When I go back into settings - the changes are still there. Everything runs like it should - apart from the changes actually not being made.